Celibacy, culture, and society : the anthropology of sexual abstinence /
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- Celibacy in cross-cultural perspective : an overview / Sandra Bell and Elisa J. Sobo
- Private lives and public identities : an example of female celibacy in northwest India / Peter Phillimore
- The women who refuse to be exchanged : nuns in Zangskar, northwest India / Kim Gutschow
- The maintenance and reinforcement of celibacy in institutionalized settings / Hector N. Qirko
- The chaste adolescent / Alice Schlegel
- Virgins in the spirit : the celibacy of Shakers / Peter Collins
- Staying clean : notes on Mazatec ritual celibacy and sexual orientation / Michael Duke
- Can women be celibate? Sexuality and abstinence in Theravada Buddhism / Hiroko Kawanami
- Sexual fluids, emotions, morality : notes on the gendering of Brahmacharya / Meena Khandelwal
- Ritualizing celibacy : the poetics of inversion in Chile and Kenya / Mario I. Aguilar
- Like a natural woman : celibacy and the embodied self in anorexia nervosa / Rebecca J. Lester
- Cultural schemas of celibacy / Victor C. De Munck
- Celibacy in American prisons : legal and interpretive perspectives / Mark S. Fleisher and John R. Shaw
- A swallow in winter : a Catholic priesthood viewpoint / Paul Southgate.